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Achieving Maximum SSD Efficiency

There are two well-known facts about solid state disk (SSD). First, SSD is fast and second, SSD is expensive—compared with traditional disk drives. There are also two well-known facts about the data center. First, almost every data center needs more

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Integrating PCIe SSD Into The Storage System

The NexGen storage system is designed from the ground up to take advantage of solid state storage and is the first system that we know of that integrates storage tiering from the first release. It is also the first storage

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OCZ SSD Keeps Shining

This is going to be one of those blog entries where “no news” is “the news.” Storage Switzerland started testing the OCZ Deneva 2 MLC based solid state disk (SSD) drives backup on July 25th and it has been working

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AKiTio Taurus Super Mini S

A new addition to the Storage Switzerland Lab is the AKiTio Super Mini S. This is a small, somewhat portable dual drive storage device that can either stripe or mirror two 2.5″ hard drives. While some assembly is required I

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High Performance Storage For The Mid-Range

Mid-range data centers have many of the same performance challenges that large enterprises do. As these organizations grow they are virtualizing servers, becoming more reliant on high transaction databases and can have Exchange or Sharepoint performance issues. The problem is

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OCZ Deneva 2 Test Drive – First Impressions

OCZ recently sent Storage Switzerland two of their new Deneva 2 eMLC based solid state disk drives (SSD) to test in our labs. eMLC, or enterprise MLC, has a longer life cycle (about 30,000 program/erase cycles) than MLC without the

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What is Server Based Solid State Caching?

Thanks to virtualization (server and desktop), cloud computing and big data, many environments are adding capacity to their storage infrastructures to meet performance demand. Essentially they are trying to provide the storage system with access to enough hard disk spindles

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What is LTFS?

Linear Tape File System (LTFS) is IBM’s recently released, self describing tape file system that enables tape media to be mounted and read by the operating system when the cartridge is inserted into the tape drive. The goal is to

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